Software projects have budgets. Every OS officially supported amounts to time spent. Time is money. Software developers have to make decisions regarding time and money. Letting go of outdated OS's seems like a pretty reasonable budget decision to me. It frees up time and money for other things. 

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Software projects have budgets. Every OS officially supported amounts to time spent. Time is money. Software developers have to make decisions regarding time and money. Letting go of outdated OS's seems like a pretty reasonable budget decision to me. It frees up time and money for other things. 

Very true, and the fewer OS that have to be supported the potential for stability issues and and bugs is reduced.

OK . . . I'm an XP user.
Sonar X-1 has run great on my XP box (with obvious limitations), but I can take the Cakewalk hint . . . dont' upgrade to Sonar X-2 on XP.

No . . . they're not going to get my upgrade money right now, but when I inevitably buy my Windows 7 box, eventually they will get my upgrade money. Technology moves, no escaping that.  The Cakewalk idea to abandon XP support had to happen sometime.

I watched Sonar Seth's video about the X-2 changes. I like it. I want it . . . but all that new complicated software programming can't happen with Win Xp's 3GB RAM limitation. End of story. Some of the best songs ever written were on 4 track tape machines, but that's gone too.

For me, if a new Windows release benefits the current DAW, I will gladly upgrade, after the first service pack release or so.

I got into Win 7 late, around the same time when X1 released.

Win 8 looks promising too :

http://blog.cakewalk.com/windows-8-a-benchmark-for-music-production-applications/

I think the upgrade to Win8 is $40, if your computer can handle it; if it can't you should stick to 8.5.3 and accept that future programs are probably not going to be made to run on your XP machine.

Like I said, no reason to stay at 8.5.3 on Win XP, X-1 works great on X-P . . . but upgrading to X-2 will not work well.

Technology moves, no escaping that. The Cakewalk idea to abandon XP support had to happen sometime.

 
So true...    And from what Noel wrote on another thread, it's because the Windows DLLs are not backwards compatible with WinXP.   So either CW has to remove XP from the list, or they'd have to continue development and support of WinXP independently of Win7/8.  Which puts Win7/8 users at a disadvantage when it comes to the number of fixes and enhancements going forward...and I'd imagine they are the larger group at this point.    So it makes perfect IMHO sense to stick with what works until you can make the move to a newer OS.   Heck... and for some, that *is* X2.

Cakewalk made a good solid business decision based upon finances and technincal and engineering merit to drop XP.. a practice that is increasingly common (Native Instruments and Access to name the 2 that affect me musically) and so if the OP wishes to bury himself in the past that is his decision....

a search would have realised this dead horse has long been flogged in several threads.

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...XP is a different story. A working OS. I've never seen my CPU meters (quad core) pegged with X1 or version 8.

Maybe I'm a luddite, but my PC is working fine...

Same here.  I'm still using XP and Sonar 7PE and not in any particular hurry to move up yet.  I have an installation of Windows 7 64-bit in a separate partition ready to migrate to at some point in the future, but not everything works properly there yet.  I've got great performance and stability on my current setup so there's no strong motivation to change, other than keeping up with fashions.